How would Steven react to Kevin dating a Crystal Gem?

It likely wouldn't last long. I really can't imagine their personalities properly meshing together, even if Kevin went through some character development within the past few years.

Kevin being completely unredeemed and despised despite not really doing much wrong is one of those dropped SU plot points that is going to annoy the piss out of me every time I think about it for years to come.
It isn't on the level of Peridot being curious about fusion, Nephrites post-heal relationship with Steven or just about everything to do with Lapis but it is still aggravating.

What the fuck did Kevin even do?
Seriously, I don't remember.

He hit on Stevonnie and that is such a massive problem

Too cool for plebs to handle. It's what the kids call "Based".

He hit on Stevonnie which made Steven uncomfortable and it was implied (and only implied because the Connie/Steven relationship was played insanely chaist and platonic for most of the show) that he was pissed that Kevin was hitting on his bitch by proxy. Later he acted like kind of a dick during an illegal street race and in his final appearance he invited Steven and Connie to a party to get them to fuse so he could use Stevonnie to impress his friends.
Basically he was just guilty of being sort of a low-tier wannabe cool cunt as opposed to the actual assaults, kidnappings and legitimate personal attacks that the other townies have gotten up to in the past.

Then,
>The door was kicked open, falling off it's hinges. A familiar ugly man with a deformed left eye marched in, holding his big stick as he inspected the myriad of bunks. "Where's FATTEH?!"
>"AAAHHHH!" Steven jumped out and tried to run, but Papa just whistled. The Junkyard Dogs were upon him, tearing into his limbs as they dragged him ragged, his blood soaking into the wooden floor as he shrieked like a pig.
>"See?" One of the other children laughed from his beg. "Ah tol' yu' he waz a piggah."
Meanwhile,
>"Kevin honey, did you hear something?" Pearl whispered into Kevin's ear.
>Kevin Henson von Shrakenberg Cheney Bush Clinton Kennedy Uppercrust the IV of the House of Windsor, accomplished plantation owner and dedicated dixiecrat, just shrugged, "I didn't hear a thing."

Kevin. That program for troubled youth was a stroke of genius. Putting them to work on his farm, teaching them important life skills instead of letting them run rabid... They even have a role for the special needs child.

Kevin is one of those townies that I was legitimately interested in seeing more of that just got completely ignored in favor of Sadie, Lars, and the worst two townies: Onion and Ronaldo.
Fuckin RIP Kevin, Peedee, the Pizzas, the Deweys, Vidalia and Sour Cream.

I personally like how they've given each of the foster children stocks and barcodes. Making it easier for their caretakers and teachers to look after them, even handing them off to other concerned foster caretakers if they take a special interest in their case-provided a monetary agreement is reached. Damn, that Kevin. Him and the old school Democrats making America great again.

Yeah. Sadly, 4ATT3H hasn't been selling. I know, the poor bondsman is mentally incapable but we can't keep him at the farm. A factory, where he's moving through the gears and turbines, would be more suitable for his abilities.

>Getting involved with thousands of years of baggage
He'd chuckle and say "Good fucking luck"

>Fuckin RIP Kevin, Peedee, the Pizzas, the Deweys, Vidalia and Sour Cream.
Holy fuck this. Also watching Frybo again is just so weird now since I used to think Peedee was going to be part of Steven's friend circle of his age along with Connie

By shattering the gem and claiming Kevin for himself.

Peedee makes me wonder how the fuck has his dad not been arrested for having his underage son work a full time job manning a grill.

Peedee is a bondsman. His Dad is teaching him a trade and bought his stock from Kevin Enterprises, making Peedee a legitimate worker under the Democratic Labor Reforms that made kids everywhere employable and eligible as labor, provided their holder owns their stock. God bless Kevin 'cotton king' Sanders the III for this genius initiative. If only President Forest could see us now.

The town has no cops. Mr. Smiley actually had to hire a rentacop when something major actually went down.

Based on what we see in the series, human wars were never World War tier and tight federal-level organizations of governments aren’t really a thing. That’s why most Gem sites are accessible but mostly unexplored and entirely unlooted by most humans despite the moon landing and satellites having still happened, inb4 Kubrik conspiracy is brought up. Why nobody ever bothered the Crystal Gems about things like citizenship, or recruiting them into human conflicts.

Russia not existing and unbeatable resurrecting monsters rampaging the world for most of human history may have helped with that though.

Yeah, the Confederacy did a real good job on maintaining world peace. There's scarcely any unemployment, and Africa has a thriving trade industry. Presidents Hiram, Forest, and Garrison knew what they were doing.

Reminder that Kevin is meant to look like a failure version of Steven. He lacks the ability to connect with others on a deeper level, and his sole enjoyment from what he does is how much it impresses others; his definition of a successful party was solely based on how much he impressed his peers with a spectacle, not actually if he impressed them by throwing a good party. He’s gone through what Steven had been with Connie, only he failed miserably at it and is bothered by how it turned out but learned nothing from the experience. He’s pushy but doesn’t get his way, and whines instead. He’s wealthy but his family connection is absent and doesn’t appreciate the luxury the wealth provides.
Because he had no real connections to anyone he is able to disappear from the show and it means nothing. Nobody is his friend, or relative, and nobody brings him up when he isn’t around. He’s not a villain so he doesn’t have an arc. By contrast Steven is the main character because of his bonds with everyone, so no matter who has a problem he ends up drawn in to at least some small degree. But the more Steven in Future realizes the plots are wrapped up or are no longer involving him, the more he feels like Kevin was. Especially the more of his mother AKA a spoiled rich brat comes out of him when he goes full-Pink mode.

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There is no possible future when the CAS didn’t collapse internally. They barely were able to make an army, and couldn’t even pick a unified holiday to celebrate for morale.

yuck

fanbase hates Kevin for a reason

No Cold War yet somehow there was a moon landing?

He is a straight male

Apparently.

If you notice, Dewey’s ancestor was clearly a 1600’s colonist landing in the New World, but Buddy was more of an early 1900’s explorer. According to Pearl, both lived 200 years ago meaning America was first settled, let alone founded, in the 1800’s.

So is Steven?

Because he’s a loser?

The canon cool kids as well as his own peers were not impressed by him. Only two much younger kids thought he was cool, and both saw through his bullshit on their second meeting.

He’s the nobody who tries to use swagger and money to get people to think he’s cool. He’s not an alpha, he’s a delta at best.

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Does he only have friends cause he's rich?

From what we saw.

The few who seemed to try to be friendly to him at his party got snapped at and talked down to. At the rave they were there for the spectacle, not to support him. He just happened to be at Sourcream’s rave before that, and seemed to have been sitting out the actual dancing before seeing Stevonnie and trying to dance with them to get attention for himself.

That's so sad.

Peedee had so much personality and perfectly fit as a human outlet for Steven but instead they gave that role mostly to Lars who was an annoying unlikable cunt for four seasons before he actually became cool.
There was so much just never done for no discernable reason. I am particularly baffled about the Vidalia thing. That was a HUGE missed opportunity for an Amethyst flashback episode.

Steven is a straight male too, you dummy.
Also Lars and Greg who people generally like.
Kevin is kind of a gross douche so I can see why other fans might not like him. Personally I wanted to see Steven befriend him though since it was apparently fine when he used family connections to redeem three space Hitlers.

You want a flashback to Amethyst fucking Vidalia's brains out?

I kind of like Lars even before his character development, but yeah, I've always feel like it be interesting to see Peedee bounce off with Steven and Connie, given how different his view is from them.

I would kill for an episode to see more of Amethyst's backstory with Vidalia and probably other humans given that she's the only gem to have any relationships with other humans besides Steven, Greg, and Connie.

Kind of.

Based on his speech while racing and his view of how parties work, its his choice.

He wants to be the chad, so he acts like it. But nobody is impressed. They show up to see cars race, to dance, and to be at a rich dude’s party and he’s happy with that as long as he’s the center of attention and on his terms. He wants to be the jerk. He’s just kind if bad at it since he can’t get anyone else to play along.

Hey, an excuse to post Amethyst stuff.

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Can gems get high?

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Yes.

Weird how Amethyst was an innocent loli type in the 90's flashbacks but not in the 1700's flashbacks. I was kind of hoping they would just retcon that painting from the early episodes and just have her fresh out of the kindergarten until they doubled down with Buddy's Book.

>Weird how Amethyst was an innocent loli type in the 90's
She got really into manga during that time.

So who's car is this from Growing Pains?

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Steven's Dondai doesn't have a yellow wheel and the stick shift's handle isn't shaped like that. And Greg's van isn't a stick shift at all.

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Clearly it's Kevin's new car after his original was smashed in the movie. Yeah, I'm thinkin he's back.

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I think part of it was learning how Garnet and Pearl interacted with humans over time to emulate them, along with putting up a mature demeanor to mess around with Buddy. But when we saw her acting innocent in Greg’s flashbacks it was like a combination of her modern day goofiness and a small amount of childlike glee. She only showed the latter when talking to Garnet and Pearl behind the hand statue, she acted more composed in front of Greg.

It helps that we saw in the movie that when she first popped out of the ground she knew absolutely nothing, not even how to speak outside mimicking without understanding what the words meant. The Crystal Gems had to teach her everything, like she was the original Steven.

Which all ties into her role of the family. She’s not purple mom so much as big sister, since Pink made all the Earth Gems and Steven decided that makes all the Rose Quartzes on the Human Zoo his older sisters, making the Famethyst and the Jaspers his sisters as well. She is the baby who started to grow up right before the new baby arrived.

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eh its whatever
like said amethyst appeared far more mature when she met buddy than when she met greg. I think shes just too laid back.
funnily enough she reminds me of my dad
youtu.be/apyNauSmgHU
youtu.be/d7OBZ5fxGQU

That's fine and all, but he's been the most interesting character after that ep with the party.

Every Kevin episode has been amazing.

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"Some sort of inner freakout implying Kevin raped a gem or something"
One thing I wish would have led to something was the very fast moment where you could clearly see Ronaldo dragging away a part of the green Hand ship that crashed. When I first saw that, I thought he was going to be the one to fuck things up and get the Diamond's attention. Literally nothing ever happened and all the small foreshadowing of him being part of the story somehow just vanished. It wasn't a huge thing but still could have been better than the huge letdown with Lars and Sadie after all the time wasted on them.

>Steven finally seeing Pearl again when she comes to visit Kevin at work. Pearl reveals she’s always hated the fast bastard and was tired of changing the diapers of a 14 year old boy.
>She then abandons the little butterball to be tortured, happily bringing her boyfriend his lunch like a good gal

What about as fuckbuddies?

Yet, here we are in SU with a surviving Confederacy.

What are you talking about? The fanbase loves Kevin because he was the Steven that should have been.

Beautiful.

I still don't see why the writers want me to hate Kevin so much.

Is there a particular reason Beach City is such a paradise? It really takes me out when I see that their world is fundamentally different to ours.

I like to think she’s in her Reset Pearl look, abandoning the awful Steven part of her life to be a proper docile girlfriend of Kevin

Its based on places Sugar and her brother vacationed at as kids if I recall.

I think its more like police didn’t factor into their experiences so she didn’t bother showing any.

They may be there, just that Steven doesn’t interact with them. It could be the precinct is located where Connie lives.